(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL (#252) n° spécial -
Spanish Elections: The beginnings of a return to power (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation]
In Spain the indignados movement inherited managed until the polls in municipal and
regional. If this electoral victory is a consequence of the social movement, it is
certainly not the end. ---- Almost a month has passed, but the enthusiasm does not seem to
fade into the streets for the last municipal and regional elections in Spain. 8122 towns
and 13 autonomous communities were called to the polls on May 24 to elect representatives
who will exercise the government of municipalities and autonomous parliaments until 2019.
---- If we stick to simple electoral figures, the political assessment of the elections
does not show particularly unpublished results from a global perspective. And that's true.
Electoral participation remains around the 65%. The reactionary Popular Party (PP, Partido
Popular) of Mariano Rajoy wins in total number of votes, closely followed by the Socialist
Party (PSOE, Partido Socialista Obrero Español). The new party C's (Ciudadanos) emerging
as the third force on the board by pressing his speech markedly conservative, national
unity and economic liberalism. But an electoral assessment can be translated a social
revolution? Certainly not. And especially not after May 15, 2011.
The Spanish company had to undergo since 2008 austéritaires destructive policies imposed
by the Troika: rising unemployment and precarious conditions of life and work have plunged
a large majority of the population in distress and social exclusion. The lack of prospects
has reversed the migration balance of the country, deporting thousands of our sisters and
brothers who were migrant-es installed it in recent years: we are currently over 1.8
million to know the economic exile and live in poverty abroad.
Light from the 15 de Mayo
However, the numbers are not enough to understand the magnitude and intensity of flowering
mobilizations since 2011. On 15 de Mayo represented a real social revolution for the
Spanish company to the brink and that we kept saying that it was impossible to do
otherwise. These transformations are the conditions that led two militant today as Ada
Colau and Manuela Carmena at the head of the city councils of Barcelona and Madrid. The
first anti-globalization and social activist, was active in the movement for decent
housing and co-founder of the Platform of victims mortgages (PAH) in 2009; the second,
retired judge of the Supreme Court, was a lawyer in the labor law of the Workers
'Commissions (second union in the country) for workers' rights and held-es during Francoism.
These regional and municipal elections are to be read in light of the 15 de Mayo has shown
us, the way, that everything had to be rebuilt and there was that we, the gente común, to
be able to implement this change. The last four years have shaken the field of
possibilities of Spanish society, where the electoral bias is only a part. But the
reappropriation of political action and the thirst for change is lived primarily among
people in militant organizations, in neighborhood assemblies, in social centers
self-management in the cooperatives, in the disobedience of networks, in platforms against
speculative evictions. This revolution first saw in the streets, where one sings again:!
¡Sí se puede (Yes, we can!)
Andrea Rey Lopez (friend of AL)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Elections-espagnoles-L-amorce-d
